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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 1: The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: A speckled beauty, Henrietta Hen thought highly of herself. Not
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  Speaker 1: only did she consider herself a speckled beauty to use
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  Speaker 1: her own words, but she had an excellent opinion of
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  Speaker 1: her own ways, her own ideas, even of her own belongings.
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  Speaker 1: When she pulled a fat worm or a grub out
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  Speaker 1: of the ground, she did it with an air of pride,
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  Speaker 1: and she was almost sure to say, there, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see anybody else find a bigger one than that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it wouldn't really have pleased her at all
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  Speaker 1: to have one of her neighbors do better than she did.
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  Speaker 1: That was only her way of boasting that no one
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  Speaker 1: could beat her. If anyone happened to mention speckles, Henrietta
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  Speaker 1: Hen was certainly to speak of her own, claiming that
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  Speaker 1: they were the handsomest and most speckley to be found
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  Speaker 1: in pleasant Valley. And if a person chanced to say
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  Speaker 1: anything about Comb's. Henrietta never failed to announce that hers
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  Speaker 1: was the reddest and most beautiful in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody could ever find out how she knew that she
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  Speaker 1: had never been off the farm, but it was useless
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  Speaker 1: to remind her that she had never traveled. Such a
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  Speaker 1: remark only made her angry. Having such a good opinion
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  Speaker 1: of herself, Henrietta Hen always had a great deal to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. She kept up a constant clock from dawn
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  Speaker 1: till dusk. It made no difference to her whether she
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  Speaker 1: happened to be alone or with friends. She talked just
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  Speaker 1: the same, though naturally she preferred to have others hear
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  Speaker 1: what she said, because she considered her remarks most important.
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  Speaker 1: There were times when Henrietta Hen took pains that all
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  Speaker 1: her neighbors should hear her. She was never so proud
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  Speaker 1: as when she had a newly laid egg to exhibit.
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  Speaker 1: Then an ordinary clock was not loud enough to express
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  Speaker 1: her feelings. To announce such important news, Henriette Hen never
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  Speaker 1: failed to raise her voice in a high pitched cot
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  Speaker 1: cod got God. This interesting speech she always repeated several times,
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  Speaker 1: for she wanted everybody to know that Henrietta Hen had
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  Speaker 1: laid another of her famous eggs. After such an event,
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  Speaker 1: she always went about asking people if they had heard
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  Speaker 1: the news, just as if they could have helped hearing
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  Speaker 1: her silly racket. Now. It sometimes happened when she was
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  Speaker 1: on such an errand that Henriette Hen met with snubs now,
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  Speaker 1: and then her question, have you heard the news brought
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  Speaker 1: such sallies as these polly Plymouth Rock has just laid
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  Speaker 1: an enormous egg?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe don't be disappointed, Henrietta, somebody has to lay
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  Speaker 1: the littlest ones. Such gibes were certain to make Henrietta
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  Speaker 1: Hand lose her temper, and she would talk very fast
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  Speaker 1: and alas very loud too, about jealous neighbors and how
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  Speaker 1: unpleasant it was to live among folk that were so
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  Speaker 1: stingy of their praise that they couldn't say a good
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  Speaker 1: word for the finest eggs that were ever seen. On
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  Speaker 1: such occasions, Henrietta Hen generally talked in a lofty way
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  Speaker 1: about moving to the village to live. They think enough
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  Speaker 1: of my eggs down there? She would boast boiled, fried, poached, scrambled,
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  Speaker 1: or for an omelet, my eggs can't be beaten.
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  Speaker 2: If the villagers can't beat your eggs, they certainly can't
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  Speaker 2: use them for omelets.
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  Speaker 1: Polly Plymouth Rock told Henrietta one.
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  Speaker 2: Day, everybody knows you have to beat eggs to make
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  Speaker 2: an omelet.
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  Speaker 1: Henrietta Hen didn't know what to say to that. It
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  Speaker 1: was almost the only time she was ever known to
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  Speaker 1: be silent. End of Chapter one, A Speckled Beauty. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: two of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is a
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  Speaker 1: The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: A Fine Family. Henrietta Hen's neighbors paid little attention to
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  Speaker 1: her boasting because they had to listen to her so often.
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  Speaker 1: At last, however, there came a day when she set
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  Speaker 1: up such a cackling as they had never heard from
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  Speaker 1: her before. She kept calling out at the top of
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  Speaker 1: her lungs, come, come, come see what I've got. Come, come,
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  Speaker 1: come see what I've got, And she acted even more
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  Speaker 1: important than ever, until her friends began to say to
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  Speaker 1: one another, what can Henrietta be so proud about. It's
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  Speaker 1: only another egg. She's making a terrible fuss about it.
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  Speaker 1: They decided at last that if they were to have
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  Speaker 1: any peace, they'd better go and look at whatever it
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  Speaker 1: was that Henrietta hen was squawking about. So they went
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  Speaker 1: in a body to the place where she had her
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  Speaker 1: nest in the hay mow. When Henrietta caught sight of
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  Speaker 1: her visitors, she set up a greater clamor than ever.
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  Speaker 1: Well well grinned the oldest of the party, a rather
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  Speaker 1: sharp tongued dame with white feathers. What's all this hubbub about?
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  Speaker 1: And then they learned what it was that Henrietta wanted
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  Speaker 1: them to see. Do you ever set eyes on such
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  Speaker 1: a fine family? She demanded, as she stepped aside from
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  Speaker 1: her nest and let them peer into it. The brood
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  Speaker 1: of check, eh, said the lady in white. Well, what's
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  Speaker 1: all the noise? Bowed? Henrietta hen turned her back on
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  Speaker 1: the Questioner. I knew you'd all want to have a
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  Speaker 1: look at these prize youngsters, she said to the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the company. You'll agree with me, of course, that
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  Speaker 1: there were no any other chicks. Is hadn't some as
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  Speaker 1: these Henrietta's neighbors all crowded up to gaze upon the
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  Speaker 1: soft balls of down. This is the first family you've hatched,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, Polly plumouth Rock inquired. Henrietta Hen said that
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  Speaker 1: it was her first brute. Her neighbors wanted to be pleasant,
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  Speaker 1: so they told her that her children were as fine
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  Speaker 1: youngsters as anybody could ask for, And the old white dame,
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  Speaker 1: squinting at the nestling, said to Henrietta, they're the fightest
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  Speaker 1: you've ever had, but there's one of them that has
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  Speaker 1: a queer look. All the other visitors tried to hush
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  Speaker 1: her up. They didn't want to hurt Henrietta Hen's feelings.
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  Speaker 1: It was her first brood of chicks, and they could
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  Speaker 1: forgive her for thinking them the best in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: So when they saw that Old Whitey intended to be disagreeable,
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  Speaker 1: they began to cluck their approval of the youngsters, hoping
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  Speaker 1: that Henrietta wouldn't notice what Whitey said. Nor did she.
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  Speaker 1: Henrietta Hen was altogether too pleased with herself and her
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  Speaker 1: new family to pay much attention to anybody else's remarks.
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  Speaker 1: I who said Henrietta that you'll all come to see
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  Speaker 1: my family often. As the youngsters grow, I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 1: get handsomer every day. The neighbors thanked her and crowding
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  Speaker 1: about Old Whitey. They moved away. Old Whitey just had
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  Speaker 1: to go too. She couldn't help spluttering a little.
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  Speaker 2: What a vain, empty headed creature, Henriette in his she exclaimed,
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't know that one of her brood is nothing
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  Speaker 2: but a duckling.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter two. A Fine Family read by Tom Merritt.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter three of the Tale of Henrietta Hend. This is
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Sarah and Gracia Parshall. The Tale of Henrietta
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  Speaker 3: Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter three, Wet Feet. Somehow
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  Speaker 3: Henrietta hen had never noticed that one of her brood
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  Speaker 3: was different from the rest. They were her first youngsters,
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  Speaker 3: and they all looked beautiful to her. As soon as
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  Speaker 3: Henriette began to take her children for strolls about the
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  Speaker 3: farm yard, she taught them a number of things. She
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  Speaker 3: showed them how to scratch in the dirt for food,
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  Speaker 3: how to drink by raising their beaks and letting the
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  Speaker 3: water trickle down their throats. She bade them beware of
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  Speaker 3: hawks and of miss Kitty Cat too, and she was
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  Speaker 3: always warning them to keep their feet dry. Water's good
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  Speaker 3: for nothing except to drink, Henrietta informed her chicks. Some
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  Speaker 3: strange people like old dog Spot jump right into it,
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  Speaker 3: and how they managed to keep well is more than
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  Speaker 3: I can understand. Dust bath, so the only safe ones.
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  Speaker 3: So much did she fear water that Henrietta Hen wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even let her children walk in the grass until the
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  Speaker 3: sun had dried the morning's dew, and the first sprinkle
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  Speaker 3: of rain was enough to send her skirting for cover,
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  Speaker 3: calling frantically for her chicks to hurry now. There was
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  Speaker 3: one of her family that always lagged behind when the
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  Speaker 3: rain wraps began to fall, and often Henrietta had to
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  Speaker 3: thoroughly drive him away from a puddle of water. She
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  Speaker 3: sometimes remarked with a sigh that he gave her more
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  Speaker 3: trouble than the rest of all her children together. This
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  Speaker 3: was the youngster that missus Hen's neighbors told one other
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  Speaker 3: was different from his brothers and sisters, but poor Henrietta
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  Speaker 3: only knew that he was unusually hard to manage. As
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  Speaker 3: her family grew bigger, Henrietta hen took them on longer strolls,
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  Speaker 3: always casting a care caerful eye aloft now and then,
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  Speaker 3: lest some hawk should swoop down upon her darlings. And
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  Speaker 3: though no hawk tried to surprise her, something happened one
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  Speaker 3: day that gave Henrietta almost as great a fright as
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  Speaker 3: any cruel hawk could have caused her. They had strayed
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  Speaker 3: down by the Duck pond, had Henrietta and her children
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  Speaker 3: stopping here and there to scratch for some tidbit, or
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  Speaker 3: to flutter in an inviting dust heap. Once they had
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  Speaker 3: reached the bank of the pond, Henrietta began to wish
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  Speaker 3: she hadn't brought her family in that direction. For one
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  Speaker 3: of the youngsters, the one that would never hurry in
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  Speaker 3: out of the rain, insisted on tuddling down to the
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  Speaker 3: water's edge. Come away this instant, Henrietta shrieked, as soon
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  Speaker 3: as she noticed where he was. You'll get your feet
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  Speaker 3: wet the first thing, you know. She never said anything
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  Speaker 3: truer than that. The words were scared of her bill.
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  Speaker 3: When the odd member of her family flung himself into
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  Speaker 3: the water, or, to be more exact, he flung himself
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  Speaker 3: upon it, for he floated on the surface as easily
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  Speaker 3: as a chip, and begled a paddle about as if
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  Speaker 3: he had swum all his life. Come back, Come back,
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  Speaker 3: Henrietta shrieked, you'll be drowned, or you'll get your feet wet.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter three. Wet Feet read by Sarah and
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  Speaker 4: Chapter four of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 4: Recording by Gina Way. The Tale of Henrietta Hen by
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  Speaker 4: Arthur Scott Bailet, Chapter four. A swimmer, Henrietta Hen ran
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  Speaker 4: as fast as she could down the bank and stood
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  Speaker 4: as near the water as she dared, cackling loudly and
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  Speaker 4: flapping her wings. Her child, who was swimming in the
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  Speaker 4: duck pond, seemed to have no intention of minding her,
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  Speaker 4: nor did he seem to have any intention of drowning.
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  Speaker 4: And as for getting his feet wet, he acted as
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  Speaker 4: if he liked that? What shall I do?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: What shall I do? Henrietta Hen squawked. She made so
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  Speaker 4: much noise that some of her neighbors came a running
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  Speaker 4: to see what was the matter. And as soon as
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  Speaker 4: they discovered what had happened, they began to laugh. We
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  Speaker 4: may as well tell you, they said to Henrietta Hen,
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  Speaker 4: that that chap out there is a duckling. The water
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  Speaker 4: won't hurt him. Henrietta Hen gasped and gaped. She was astonished,
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  Speaker 4: But she soon pulled herself together, and it was just
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  Speaker 4: like her to begin to boast. See, she cried to
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  Speaker 4: her friends and waved a wing toward the water with
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  Speaker 4: an air of pride. There isn't one of you that
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  Speaker 4: has a child that can be him swimming, I should
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  Speaker 4: hope not, said Polly Plymouth Rock with a shrug of
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  Speaker 4: her fine shoulders. And all the others agreed that they
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  Speaker 4: wanted no swimmers in their families. Henrietta Hen announced that
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  Speaker 4: she was sorry for them. Every brood, she declared, should
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  Speaker 4: have at least one swimmer in it. She began to
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  Speaker 4: straw up and down the edge of the duck pond,
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  Speaker 4: clocking in a most overbearing fashion. Really, she had never
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  Speaker 4: felt quite so important before, not even when her first
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  Speaker 4: brood packed their way out of their shells. There's nothing
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  Speaker 4: quite like swimming, Henrietta Henry marked with a silly smirk.
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  Speaker 4: If it weren't forgetting my feet wet, I'd be tempted
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  Speaker 4: to learn myself. No doubt my son could teach me.
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  Speaker 4: Your son, the old white hen sniffed, He's not your son,
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  Speaker 4: Henrietta hen somebody played a joke on you. Somebody put
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  Speaker 4: a duck's egg under you while you were hatching your eggs.
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  Speaker 4: And I think I can guess who it was that
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  Speaker 4: did it. For just a moment, Henrietta hen stood still.
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  Speaker 4: The news almost took her breath away. Her car trembled
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  Speaker 4: on the top of her head. She even stopped clucking
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  Speaker 4: as she looked from one to another of her companions,
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  Speaker 4: as if in hopes of finding one face at least
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  Speaker 4: that looked doubtful. Alas everybody appeared to agree with Old Whitey.
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  Speaker 4: If this is so, Henrietta muttered, at last, it's strange
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  Speaker 4: nobody ever noticed before that there was a duckling in
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  Speaker 4: my rood. We knew from the very first polly Plymouth
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  Speaker 4: rock totr. You're the only one on the farm that
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  Speaker 4: didn't see that one of your family was different from
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  Speaker 4: the rest. All this time, the young duckling was swimming
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  Speaker 4: further and further away. He seemed to have forgotten all
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  Speaker 4: about his foster mother, Henrietta Hen took one long laugh
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  Speaker 4: look at him. She guessed that she might have stood
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  Speaker 4: there forever cackling for him to come back, and he
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have paid the slightest heed to her. Then she
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  Speaker 4: gathered her children, her really own about her. Come, she
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  Speaker 4: said to them, we'll go back home. Now, what about him,
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  Speaker 4: they demanded, pointing to the trenched ducklin who was bobbing
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  Speaker 4: about on the rippling water. Aren't you going to make
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  Speaker 4: him come too? No, said their mother. We're well rid
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  Speaker 4: of him. He has been more troubled to me than
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  Speaker 4: all the rest of you. To tell the truth, I
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  Speaker 4: never liked him very much. End of chapter four. A
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  Speaker 4: swimmer recording by Gina Way.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter five of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 5: Recording by Gina Way. The Tale of Henrietta hen by
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  Speaker 5: Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter five. Caught by mister Crow. It
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  Speaker 5: wasn't far to the edge of the cornfield from the
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  Speaker 5: farmyard fence, and Henrietta hen was cooked to discover that
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  Speaker 5: the freshly plowed and harold field offered a fine place
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  Speaker 5: to scratch for all kinds of worms and bugs and grubs.
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  Speaker 5: Not being we might call a one eyesbird like old
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  Speaker 5: mister Crow, Henrietta didn't know that Farmer Green had carefully
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  Speaker 5: planted corn in that field in long Rose. She did exclaim, however,
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  Speaker 5: that she was in great luck when now and then
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  Speaker 5: she had on earth a few colonels of corn. But
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  Speaker 5: she wasn't looking for corn, She merely ate it. When
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  Speaker 5: she happened to find any. It is no wonder then
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  Speaker 5: that she was amazed, and a hoarse voice suddenly cried
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  Speaker 5: right in her ear, almost, you're a thief, and you
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  Speaker 5: can't deny it. She jumped, how could she have helped it?
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  Speaker 5: And the voice exclaimed, there, you're guilty, or you'd never
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  Speaker 5: have jumped like that. Turning, Henrietta saw that a black,
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  Speaker 5: beady eyed gentleman was staying at her sternly. It takes
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  Speaker 5: mister Crow to catch him, he croaked, He can tell
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  Speaker 5: a corn thief half a mile away. All this time,
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  Speaker 5: Henrietta Hen hadn't said a word. At first she was
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  Speaker 5: too surprised, and afterwards she was too angry. Why don't
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  Speaker 5: you speak, he demanded. He dearly loved a quarrel, and
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  Speaker 5: somehow it wasn't much fun quarreling with anybody when the
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  Speaker 5: other party wouldn't say a word. Still, Henrietta Hen didn't
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  Speaker 5: open her mouth. She puzzled mister Crow. He even forgot
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  Speaker 5: his rage, for I always made him angry if anybody
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  Speaker 5: but himself scratched up any corn. What's the matter with you,
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  Speaker 5: he asked. What's the reason you don't speak? I'm too
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  Speaker 5: proud to talk with you, said Henriette Hen. I don't
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  Speaker 5: care to be seen speaking to you, sir. Ha, mister
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  Speaker 5: Crow exploded. DoD you think I'm as good as you are? No,
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  Speaker 5: said Henrietta Hen, No, I don't. Mister Crow was all
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  Speaker 5: for arguing with her. He began to tell Henrietta many
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  Speaker 5: things about himself, how he has spent dozens of summers
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  Speaker 5: in Pleasant Valley with a great traveler he was, how
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  Speaker 5: far he could fly in a day. There was no
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  Speaker 5: end to his boasting. Yet Henrietta hen never looked at
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  Speaker 5: least bit interested. Indeed, she began scratching for worms while
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  Speaker 5: he was talking, and that made the old fellow angrier
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  Speaker 5: than ever. Don't you dare eat another colonel of corn,
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  Speaker 5: he thundered. If you do, I'll have to tell farmer greed.
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  Speaker 5: He feeds me corn every day, cracked corn, said Henriette. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I never cried, mister crow. What's he thinking of wasting
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  Speaker 5: good corn like that? Really? I mustn't be seen talking
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  Speaker 5: with you, Henriette hen told mister Crow, if you want
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  Speaker 5: to know the answer to your question, come over to
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  Speaker 5: the barnyard and ask the rooster. He'll give you an
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  Speaker 5: answer that you won't like. And then she walked away
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  Speaker 5: with stately steps. Mister Curle washed her with a baleful
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  Speaker 5: gleam in his eyes. He knew well enough what Henrietta meant.
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  Speaker 5: The rooster would rather fight him than not. And though
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  Speaker 5: mister Curle loved a quarrel, he never cared to indulge
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  Speaker 5: in anything more dangerous than harsh words. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what the farm's coming to, he croaked, here's farmer Green
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  Speaker 5: wisting corn on such as her, and cracking it for
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  Speaker 5: her too, so saying the old gentleman turned his back
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  Speaker 5: on Henriette de Hen, who was already fluttering through the
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  Speaker 5: farmyard fence. And thereupon he scratched up enough corn for
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  Speaker 5: a hearty meal, grumbling meanwhile because it wasn't cracked for him. Somehow,
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  Speaker 5: he muttered, I can't help wishing out a speckled hand
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  Speaker 5: and of Chapter five caught by mister Crow. Recording by way.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter six of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Sarah and Gracia Parshall. The Tale of Henrietta
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  Speaker 3: Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey. Chapter six, Henrietta complains there
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  Speaker 3: was another member of Farmer Green's flock besides Henrietta Hen
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  Speaker 3: that was proud. Nobody needed to look twice at the
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  Speaker 3: rooster to tell he had an excellent opinion of himself.
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  Speaker 3: He had a way of walking about the farmyard that
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  Speaker 3: said quite plainly that he believed himself to be the
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  Speaker 3: person of great importance, and it was true that things
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  Speaker 3: went according to his ideas. Among the flock, he was
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  Speaker 3: always spoken on as the rooster, for although there were
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  Speaker 3: other roosters in the flock, they were both younger and
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  Speaker 3: smaller than he, and he would never permit anybody to
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  Speaker 3: call them in his hearing anything but cockerels. These cockerels
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  Speaker 3: always took great pains to keep out of the rooster's way.
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  Speaker 3: If they were careless and he caught them napping, he
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  Speaker 3: was more than likely to make matters unpleasant for them.
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  Speaker 3: He knew how to make their feathers fly. Now, Henrietta
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  Speaker 3: hen that the rooster behaved in a most silly fashion.
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  Speaker 3: She said it pained her to see him prancing about
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  Speaker 3: with his two long arched tail feathers, nodding as he walked.
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  Speaker 3: The truth was, Henrietta could not endure it to have
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  Speaker 3: anyone more elegantly dressed than she, And there was no
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  Speaker 3: denying that the rooster's finery outshone anybody else's. Why he
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  Speaker 3: wore a comb on his head that was even bigger
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  Speaker 3: than Henriette's, and he had spurs too for his legs.
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  Speaker 3: But what Henrietta disliked most about the rooster was the
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  Speaker 3: way he crowed each morning. It wasn't so much the
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  Speaker 3: kind of crowing that he indulged in, It was rather
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  Speaker 3: the early hour he chose for it that annoyed Henrietta.
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  Speaker 3: He always began his cock adooloo while it was still
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  Speaker 3: yet dark. Then everybody in the headhouse had to wake up,
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  Speaker 3: whether he wanted to or not, and Henriette head did
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  Speaker 3: wish that the rooster would keep still at least till
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  Speaker 3: daylight came. She often remarked that it was perfectly ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: for anyone from a fine family as she was, to
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  Speaker 3: get up at such an unearthly hour. She said, it
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  Speaker 3: was a wonder she kept her good looks just on
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  Speaker 3: account of the rooster's crowing. Why don't you ask him
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  Speaker 3: to wait until it's light before he begins to crowl
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  Speaker 3: pollyplmth rac, asked Henrietta. One day, I'll do it, cried Henrietta.
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  Speaker 3: Right then she called to one of the cockrolls who
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  Speaker 3: was nearby. Just skip across the yard and ask the rooster.
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  Speaker 6: She began.
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  Speaker 3: The cockroll broke right in upon her message. Oh I
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  Speaker 3: can't do that, he exclaimed. I've never gone up to
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  Speaker 3: the rooster and spoken to him. If I did, he'd
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  Speaker 3: be sure to fight me. Just tell him that I
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  Speaker 3: sent you, said Henrietta, and she made the cockrow listen
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  Speaker 3: to her message. But he wouldn't be persuaded. He told
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  Speaker 3: Henrietta that the rooster would be sure to jump at
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  Speaker 3: him the moment he opened his mouth. Besides, he added,
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't do any good anyhow. The rooster can't wait
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  Speaker 3: until after daylight before he begins to crow. He can't, eh,
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  Speaker 3: Henrietta hen spoke up somewhat sharply, I'd like to know
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  Speaker 3: the reason why, and fixing her sternly upon the rooster,
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  Speaker 3: she marched straight across the fiveyard towards him to find
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  Speaker 3: out and of chapter six, Henrietta complains. Read by Sarah
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  Speaker 3: and Grasha Parshall Sarah Parshall dot blogspot dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 1: The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey. Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Warning the rooster good afternoon, Henrietta, hen greeted the rooster.
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  Speaker 1: He had not seen her as she walked towards him,
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  Speaker 1: and when she spoke, he hastily arranged his two long
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  Speaker 1: tail feathers in what he can do considered a more
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  Speaker 1: becoming droop. Good afternoon, madam, he answered. For the rooster
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  Speaker 1: prided himself that he was always polite to the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong, I hope, he added quickly, as
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  Speaker 1: he noticed an odd gleam in henrietta Hen's eye. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there is, she said. The cockerels might fear the rooster,
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  Speaker 1: but Henrietta certainly didn't. She considered him a good deal
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  Speaker 1: of a braggart. Indeed, she even had an idea that
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  Speaker 1: she could have whipped him herself had she cared to
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  Speaker 1: be so unladylike as to fight. I've been bothered for
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  Speaker 1: a long time because you crow so early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You make such a racket that you wake me up
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  Speaker 1: every day. The rooster hemmed and hawed. Somehow he felt uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: The that's unfortunate, he stammered, And then he had a
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  Speaker 1: happy thought. Anyhow, he continued with a smile at Henrietta.
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  Speaker 1: You don't look as if you lack for sleep, madam,
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  Speaker 1: you grow more beautiful every day. Henrietta Hen admitted that
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  Speaker 1: it was so, but she said, I believe I'd be
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  Speaker 1: even handsomer if I weren't disturbed so early. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like to get up while it's dark, so I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you to delay your crowing from now on
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  Speaker 1: until after sunrise. Impossible, cried the rooster. I'm sorry to
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  Speaker 1: disoblige you, madam, but what you ask can't be done.
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  Speaker 1: That's just what the cockrel said. Henrietta Hen exclaimed the cockrel.
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  Speaker 1: The rooster echoed angrily. Which one has one of those
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  Speaker 1: upstarts been talking about me? Point him out to me
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  Speaker 1: and I'll soon teach him a lesson. Henrietta Hen said
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  Speaker 1: she hadn't noticed which Cockrell it was. Somehow, they all
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  Speaker 1: looked alike to her. Good luister cried, then, I'll I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to whip them all to make sure of punishing
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  Speaker 1: the guilty one. He looked very fierce. Don't be absurd,
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  Speaker 1: Henrietta told him. I asked one of the cockwells to
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  Speaker 1: give you a message about not crowing so early, and
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  Speaker 1: he declined. He said it wouldn't do any good. It
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have done him any good, the rooster declared, stamping
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  Speaker 1: a foot and thrusting his bill far forward to show
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  Speaker 1: Henrietta Hen how brave he was. What's the matter, she inquired,
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  Speaker 1: Have you eaten something that disagrees with you? The rooster
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help looking foolish. Henrietta Hen believed in letting him
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  Speaker 1: know that she stood in no awe of him, and
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  Speaker 1: while he was feeling ill at ease, she hastened to
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  Speaker 1: tell him that hereafter he must hold on to his
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  Speaker 1: first crow until after sunrise. I can't do that, he
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  Speaker 1: told her, again, unhappily. Don't you dare let go of it?
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  Speaker 1: She warned him. If that first crow who gets away
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  Speaker 1: from you while it's dog, there'll be so many others
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  Speaker 1: to follow it that I shan't be able to close
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  Speaker 1: an eye for even a catnap. End of chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Warning the Rooster read by Tom Merritt, Chapter eight of
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  Speaker 1: the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 1: Why the rooster crowed? Henrietta Hen had commanded the rooster
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  Speaker 1: to wait until daylight before he began to crow. He
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  Speaker 1: saw that she had made up her mind that he
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  Speaker 1: must obey her, but he knew he couldn't, and he
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  Speaker 1: always took great aims to be polite to the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: It was a wonder the rooster didn't turn red in
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  Speaker 1: the face. He had never found himself in such a
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  Speaker 1: corner before. You don't understand, he blurted. I'd be delighted
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  Speaker 1: to oblige you, but if I didn't crow until after
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  Speaker 1: the sun rose, I'd never crow again. We could stand.
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  Speaker 1: That was Henrietta Hen's grim reply, Perhaps, he admitted, for
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  Speaker 1: she made him feel strangely humble. But could you stand
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  Speaker 1: it if the night lasted forever? You're talking nonsense now,
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  Speaker 1: she declared. You don't understand, he told her again. And
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  Speaker 1: I must say, I'm surprised, madam, that you didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: It was I that waked the sun up every morning.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I crow so early. Henrietta Hen was so
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  Speaker 1: astonished that she didn't know what to say. She thought
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  Speaker 1: deeply for a time, or as deeply as she could have.
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  Speaker 1: You noticed the rooster inquired that the sun never rises
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  Speaker 1: until I've crowed loudly a good many times. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't, Henrietta murmured. But now that you speak of it,
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  Speaker 1: I see that it's so exactly, he said, And often, Madam,
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  Speaker 1: I have to crow a long time before he peeps
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  Speaker 1: over Blue Mountain. It's lucky I have a good, strong voice,
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  Speaker 1: the rooster added with a smirk, for he was feeling
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  Speaker 1: more at his ease. If I had a thin, squeaky crow,
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  Speaker 1: such as those worthless cockrels have, Farmer Green would have
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  Speaker 1: had to do many a day's work in the dark. Goodness,
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  Speaker 1: Henriette Hen gasped, Do crow your loudest the moment you
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  Speaker 1: wake up, mister rooster, do make all the noise you can,
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  Speaker 1: and he promised faithfully that he would. Henrietta left him.
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  Speaker 1: Then somehow she couldn't get their talk out of her mind,
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  Speaker 1: and soon she had an unhappy thought, what if anything
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  Speaker 1: should happen to the rooster's voice. The moment that question
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  Speaker 1: popped into her head, Henriette a Hen hurried back to
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  Speaker 1: the rooster. Do be careful, she besought him. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: your feet wet, for if you caught cold, you might
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  Speaker 1: be so hoarse you couldn't speak above a whisper. The
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  Speaker 1: rooster thanked her politely for thinking of his health. I
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  Speaker 1: always take good care.
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  Speaker 2: Of myself, he assured her.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like rain this minute, she said, as she
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  Speaker 1: cast an anxious glance at the sky. Hadn't you better
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  Speaker 1: run into the barn? He thought otherwise, and said as much.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to wear rubbers every day, she chided him,
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  Speaker 1: as she went away again. Soon Henrietta returned once more
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  Speaker 1: to urge the rooster to carry an umbrella, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't long after that when she came bustling up to
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  Speaker 1: him and informed him that a warm muffler about his
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  Speaker 1: throat wouldn't be a miss. There seemed to be no
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  Speaker 1: end to her suggestions, and though at first the rooster
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  Speaker 1: had liked to hear them without having any idea of
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  Speaker 1: following them, after a time Henriette's attentions began to annoy him.
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  Speaker 1: Great cracked corn, he exclaimed, this, Henriette, hen is getting
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  Speaker 1: to be a pest. End of chapter eight Why the
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  Speaker 1: Rooster Crowed? Read by Tom Merritt.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter nine of the Tale of Henriet A hen This
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox dot org. The Tale of Henrida hen by Arthur
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  Speaker 7: Scott Bailey, recording by Roshnaumed haughty Henrita feeling as important
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  Speaker 7: as she did. Henrieta Han liked to have her own way.
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  Speaker 7: She said that she couldn't be expected to do just
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  Speaker 7: as others wished. I'll take orders from nobody, she often declared.
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  Speaker 7: And if I lay eggs for Farmer Green, I shall
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  Speaker 7: lay them when and where I please. Henrietta took special
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  Speaker 7: delight in laying her eggs in out of the way places.
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  Speaker 7: She was never content to lay two in the same nest.
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  Speaker 7: If they left them for me, perhaps I'd feel differently,
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  Speaker 7: she explained to her neighbors. But Johnnie Green gathers every
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  Speaker 7: egg that he can find, and if he takes my eggs,
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  Speaker 7: I'll make him hunt for them anyhow. The older more
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  Speaker 7: state hands shook their heads when Henrieta talked like that.
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  Speaker 7: They told her she was ungrateful. Farmer Green gives you
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  Speaker 7: a snug home and plenty of food, they reminded her,
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  Speaker 7: And the least you can do is to repay him.
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  Speaker 7: You ought not to make trouble by hiding your eggs,
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  Speaker 7: but Henrita Hen couldn't or wouldn't agree with them. It's
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  Speaker 7: all very well for you to talk, she retorted. If
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  Speaker 7: my eggs were undersized, I shouldn't mind losing them as
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  Speaker 7: fast as I laid them. But I lay the biggest
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  Speaker 7: and the finest eggs to be had, so it's only
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  Speaker 7: natural that I should like to have at least one
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  Speaker 7: around to look at and to show to collars. Now,
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  Speaker 7: there were plenty of other hands in the flock that
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  Speaker 7: laid eggs exactly as big or even bigger than Henrita Hans.
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  Speaker 7: Some of them told her as much, Yet it did
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  Speaker 7: them no good to talk to her. She wouldn't believe
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  Speaker 7: that there were any eggs in the world to compare
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  Speaker 7: with hers. So her neighbors learned after a while that
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  Speaker 7: they might as well let Henrieta Hen manage her affairs
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  Speaker 7: as she pleased. They couldn't help hoping, however, that somehow,
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  Speaker 7: farmer Green would find a way to outwit her. What
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  Speaker 7: can Henrieta Hen be so boastful about? Now, the Hens
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  Speaker 7: asked one another. One day, she acts as if she
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  Speaker 7: thought more highly of herself than ever. They soon discovered
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  Speaker 7: the reason for Henrieta Hen's unusually pompous manner, for she
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  Speaker 7: began to make calls on all her friends, and she
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  Speaker 7: invited everybody to come to her latest nest high up
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  Speaker 7: in the haymouth. I've something there to show you, she said,
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  Speaker 7: with an air of mystery. You'll be surprised to see it.
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  Speaker 7: Most of Henrieta's neighbors did not show any great curiosity
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  Speaker 7: to see the surprise. They smile at one another. She
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  Speaker 7: laid another egg, That's all, they whispered. But there are
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  Speaker 7: always some that can't rest until they know everybody else's business.
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  Speaker 7: And it was lucky that Henrita hen hurried home to
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  Speaker 7: receive her callers, because she had a good many. They
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  Speaker 7: came even earlier in the afternoon than was strictly fashionable,
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  Speaker 7: and they came in a crowd too. That, however, didn't
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  Speaker 7: bother Henrita Hen, nor they could have arrived too soon
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  Speaker 7: to suit her look. She cried when they reached her
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  Speaker 7: nest high up in the Mayhow did you ever see
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  Speaker 7: anything to be that? End of chapter nine, Hatti hen Rita.
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  Speaker 8: Chapter ten of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 8: Recording by Greg Giardano. The Tale of Henrietta Hen by
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  Speaker 8: Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter ten, The Big White Egg. When
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  Speaker 8: Henrietta Hen's callers crowded about her nest in the hay mow,
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  Speaker 8: they expected to see something wonderful. But when they craned
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  Speaker 8: their necks and peered into the little, hollowed out snuggery
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  Speaker 8: in the hay, they couldn't help being disappointed. And when
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  Speaker 8: they didn't burst forth with cries of surprise and praise.
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  Speaker 8: Henriette Hen looked quite unhappy, I thought, She said, you'd
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  Speaker 8: want to see this egg. I'm sure you never beheld
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  Speaker 8: a bigger nor a whiter one than this. They admitted
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  Speaker 8: that the egg was big, and that it was very,
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  Speaker 8: very white, and if their praise was faint, Henriet Eda
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  Speaker 8: never noticed it. Are you going to let farmer Green
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  Speaker 8: have that egg, one of the company inquired. No doubt,
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  Speaker 8: Johnny Green will grab it as soon as he finds
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  Speaker 8: my nest, said Henriette, with something like a sigh. If
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  Speaker 8: I could only keep this one, I wouldn't care how
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  Speaker 8: many others he took. Polly Plymouth Rock turned to Old Whitey,
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  Speaker 8: a hen who had come with her to the hay mow.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think, Polly asked? Is Henriette in danger
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  Speaker 8: of losing this egg that she thinks so much of?
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  Speaker 8: But she needn't be alarmed. Old Whitey answered, if Johnny
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  Speaker 8: Green robs her of this one, I'll miss my guess. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad to hear you say that, Henrietta Hen cried,
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  Speaker 8: Now I won't need to worry, that is, if you
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  Speaker 8: know what you're talking about. That, of course, was a
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  Speaker 8: most impolite way for Henrietta Hen to speak to anybody
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  Speaker 8: of Old Whitey's age. Whitey was the oldest hen in
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  Speaker 8: the flock, and what she didn't know about such things
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  Speaker 8: as nests and eggs and roosts wasn't worth knowing. Polly
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  Speaker 8: Plymouth Rock didn't like Henrietta Hen's remark. She opened her mouth,
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  Speaker 8: and no doubt she would have said something quite sharply
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  Speaker 8: in reply, but Old Whitey stopped her. Never mind, said Whitey.
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  Speaker 8: The day will come when Henrietta Hen will agree that
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  Speaker 8: my guess is a good one. Still, Henrietta Hen felt
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  Speaker 8: uneasy about that big white egg. I do hope Johnny
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  Speaker 8: Green won't find this new nest of mine, she remarked.
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  Speaker 8: If he does, I fear he'll take my beautiful egg
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  Speaker 8: away from me. Lay another, said Old Whitey, Lay another,
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  Speaker 8: and he'll take that and leave this one. I suppose
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  Speaker 8: I may as well try your scheme, Henrietta replied, since
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  Speaker 8: nobody suggests anything better, my idea is a good one,
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  Speaker 8: or I'll miss my guess, said Old Whitey. There was
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: some snickering among Henrietta Hen's callers as they bade her
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  Speaker 8: good afternoon and left her. They're laughing at Old Whitey,
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  Speaker 8: she said to herself. She hadn't the slightest notion that
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  Speaker 8: they could be giggling at her. Old Whitey must be wrong,
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  Speaker 8: she thought, but I may as well take her advice,
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  Speaker 8: for I don't know what else to do. Not long afterward,
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  Speaker 8: Henrietta Hen came fluttering down from the hay mow, squawking
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  Speaker 8: at the top of her lungs for Old Whitey, And
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  Speaker 8: as soon as she found her, Henrietta cried, come up
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  Speaker 8: to my nest right away. I want to ask your advice.
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  Speaker 8: Although she didn't say please, Old Whitey went with her
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  Speaker 8: end of chapter ten. The Big White Egg recording by
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: Gregg Giardano in Newport Richie, Florida, Chapter eleven of the
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  Speaker 8: Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 8: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 8: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 8: Gregg Giardano. The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey,
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  Speaker 8: Chapter eleven, Old Whitey's advice. Old Whitey, the most ancient
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  Speaker 8: hen in the flock, scrambled with some difficulty up to
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  Speaker 8: the top of the hay mow in Farmer Green's barn.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: She could scarcely keep up with Henrietta Hen, whom she
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  Speaker 8: was following by request. And when she arrived breathless at
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  Speaker 8: Henriette's nest, that proud and elegant creature turned a troubled
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  Speaker 8: face toward her. See said, Henriette, I've taken your advice
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  Speaker 8: and laid another egg. But it's nothing like the beautiful,
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  Speaker 8: big white one. This last egg is much smaller, and
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  Speaker 8: it's brown. Old Whitey nodded her head. Well, she said,
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  Speaker 8: what's your difficulty? Don't you think, said Henrietta, that if
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  Speaker 8: Johnny Green finds my nest, he'll be sure to take
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  Speaker 8: both eggs. No, I don't, was Old Whitey's blunt answer.
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  Speaker 8: Then he'll be sure to take the big white one,
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  Speaker 8: Henrietta hen wailed. No he won't, No, he won't. Old
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  Speaker 8: Whitey told her if he does, I'll miss my guess. Well,
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: that was really too much for Henrietta hen to believe
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: that boy will never take a little egg and leave
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: a big one. She declared, you wait and see if
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: he doesn't. Old Whitey advised her. So Henrietta waited. Though
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: she had little faith in Old Whitey's advice, Henrietta could
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: think of nothing else to do, and the next morning,
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: to her great surprise, when Johnny Green climbed into the
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: hay mow and found her nest, he took the small
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: brown egg and put it in his hat, and he
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: never touched the big white egg at all. He didn't
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: even pick it up and look at it perched on
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: a beam overhead. Henrietta hen watched him breathlessly, and as
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: soon as he had gone, she went flopping down to
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: the barn floor and set up a great clamor for
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: Old Whitey. What is it now, Old Whitey asked, sticking
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: her head inside the doorway. Your guess was a good one,
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: cried Henrietta. Hen he came and he took the small
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: one there, said Old Whitey. I told you so. I
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: knew Johnny Green wouldn't rob you of that big egg.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: And if you keep laying small eggs in that same nest,
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: you'll find he'll let you keep the big one. Henrietta
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: hen fairly beamed at her companion. How delightful, she exclaimed.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: I've become very very fond of that big egg. I
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: love to look at it. But there's another thing that
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: worries me. Now, if that big egg should get broken,
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: don't let that trouble you, said Old Whitey. I'm almost
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: afraid to sit on my nest, Henrietta hen confessed. If
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: the shell of that egg should happen to be thin.
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: Old Whitey seemed much amused by Henrietta's fears. Let me
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: know if you break it, she said, and then she
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: left Henriette with her treasure. I'll be very careful, Henrietta
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: called after the Old Dame. End of chapter eleven. Old
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: Whitey's Advice recording by Greg Giardano, Newport, Ritchie, Florida, Chapter
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: twelve of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is a
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• 43:53
  Speaker 8: Recording by Greg Giardano. The Tale of Henrietta Hen by
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  Speaker 8: Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter twelve, Playing Tricks. Now, the Hen,
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: known as Old Whitey, was something of a gossip. She
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: went straight to the farm yard and told everybody what
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: had happened, what Henrietta Hen had said to her, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: what she had said to Henrietta Hen. The whole flock
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: had a great laugh over the affair. To Henrietta Hen's delight,
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: all her neighbors took a keen interest in the wonderful
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: white egg. They asked her countless questions about it. Above all,
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: they always took pains to inquire whether she had been
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: so unlucky as to crack the shell. And if Henrietta
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: hadn't displeased Polly Plymouth Rock one day, the truth might
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: never have come out. Anyhow, Polly Plymouth Rock told Henrietta
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: Hen that if she had any sense she would stop
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: making such a fuss over a China egg. China egg,
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: cried Henrietta, I don't know what you mean. That's not
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: a real egg that you're so proud of. Polly Plymouth
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: Rock declared, it's nothing but a make one. Johnny Green
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: left it in your nest to fool you. So you'd
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: keep that nest and lay eggs in it right along.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: You're so careful not to break that China egg. Why
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: if you tried to break it, you'd find that it's
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: solid as a rock. Henrietta Hen couldn't believe the terrible news.
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: I'd laid that egg myself, she shrieked. You think you did,
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: but you didn't. Polly Plymouth Rock snapped, Johnny Green took
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: an egg of yours one day and left that other
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: one in its place to deceive you. And everybody on
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: the farm except you knows that he succeeded. Henrietta Hen
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: didn't wait to hear anything more. She rushed, squalling into
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: the barn and went straight to her nest. One good
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: hard peck at the big white egg told her beyond
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: all doubt that she had been betrayed. The beautiful, big
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: white egg wasn't an egg after all. Now that Henrietta
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: Hen knew it, she wondered how it could ever have
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: deceived her. She saw that it was shiny and altogether
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: unlike any egg she had ever seen anywhere. Johnny Green
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: has played a mean trick on me, Henrietta Hen cackled,
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: and now I'll play one on him. He can have
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: his old china egg. I'll leave it here for him,
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: but he'll find none of my beautiful little brown eggs
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: beside it. I'll have my nest where he'll never discover it,
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: not if he hunts for it all summer long. So saying,
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: she left the hay mow, and going into the carriage shed,
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: her roving eyes chanced to light on an old straw
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: hat of Johnny Green's that lay upside down upon a
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: high shelf. Henrietta Hen managed to flutter up beside it,
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: and then, with many a chuckle, she laid a brown
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: egg in the hat. There, she cackled, This is the
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: safest place on the farm. Johnny Green hasn't had this
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: hat on his head since last summer. End of chapter twelve,
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: Playing Tricks recording by Greg Giardano, Newport, Richie Florida.
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: Chapter thirteen of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
• 47:14
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• 47:24
  Speaker 9: Recording by Linda The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: Scott Bailey, Chapter thirteen two. In a garden, Jimmy Rabbit
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: was enjoying a few nibbles at one of Farmer Green's cabbages.
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: He hadn't noticed that there was anybody but himself in
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: the garden, so it startled him to hear a shrill
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: voice cry, get out of our garden. Jimmy Rabbit jumped,
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: but he didn't jump far, for soon he saw that
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: it was only Henrietta Hen speaking to him. Why should
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: I get out of our garden, Jimmy Rabbit inquired mildly.
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: I should have said Farmer Green's garden, said Henrietta Hen.
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: Thank you very much for the warning, But I don't
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: think we need to go away just yet. If old
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: dog Spot isn't sniffing around, said Jimmy Rabbit, I don't
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: believe there's any danger. You don't understand, Henrietta Hen cried
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: I ordered you out of the garden. You ordered me,
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: said Jimmy Rabbit, acting as if he were astonished. Yes,
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: Henrietta declared, and I'd like to know when you're going
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: to obey me. It's easy to answer that, Jimmy Rabbit replied,
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: I'm going away as soon as I've finished my luncheon.
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: Nobody could have been pleasanter than he. Yet Henrietta Hen
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: seemed determined to be disagreeable. I don't see your lunch basket,
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: she remarked, looking all around. No, he replied, I forgot it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: Meant to bring one with me and to carry a
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: cabbage head home in it. Henrietta Hen spoke as if
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: she were very peevish. You've no right, she said, to
• 48:54
  Speaker 9: take one of the cabbages away with you. I'm not
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: going to, Jimmy Rabbit explained. You nibbling at one when
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: I first noticed you, Henrietta Hen insisted.
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: Was I?
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: He gasped. Are you sure you're not mistaken? Are you
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: sure you weren't pecking at a cabbage leaf yourself? Now?
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: The truth of the matter was that Henrietta had herself
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: come to the garden to eat cabbage. Really, she was
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: no better than he was. But somehow Henrietta Hen never
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: could believe that she was in the wrong. You're impertinent,
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: she told Jimmy Rabbit in her severest tone. You know
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: very well that farmer Green raises these cabbages for home
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: use only, well, said Jimmy Rabbit. I'll make myself at
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: home here then, and turning a cold shoulder on Henrietta Hen,
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: he began nibbling at a cabbage leaf. Once more, Henrietta
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: felt quite helpless. Somehow, nothing she could say to the
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: intruder seemed to have the slightest effect on him, and
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: he appeared to be enjoying his luncheon so thoroughly that
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: it made Henrietta Hen very hungry just to see him eat.
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: In spite of herself, she couldn't resist joining him at luncheon. Ah,
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: he exclaimed between mouthfuls. I see you're making yourself at
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: home too. Henrietta Hen tried to look very dignified. She
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: pecked at the cabbage in an absent minded fashion, pretending
• 50:12
  Speaker 9: that it was no treat to her. As a matter
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: of fact, she had been trying to get a taste
• 50:16
  Speaker 9: of cabbage for a long while, and this was the
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: first time she had managed to crawl through the garden fence.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: One has to eat something, she murmured. Jimmy Rabbit smiled slyly.
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: Henrietta Hen couldn't deceive him. He knew that she was
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: as fond of cabbage as he was himself. Did you
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: ever hear it? Said? He asked her suddenly, that eating
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: too much cabbage causes long ears. End of chapter thirteen
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: two in a Garden recording by Linda.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Chapter fourteen of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Recording by Sarah and Gracia Parshall. The Tale of Henrietta
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey. Chapter fourteen ears short or long.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Henriette's heart began to thump. She dropped a bit of
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: cabbage out of her bill, letting it fall as if
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: it burned her. And usually she was very careful as
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: to her table manners. Goodness, she said to Jimmy Rabbit,
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: who was busily munching on cabbage in Farmer Green's garden,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: You frighten me. He had just asked her this very
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: strange question. Did you ever hear? It? Said that eating
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: too much cabbage cluses long ears, and Henrietta Hen didn't
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: want long ears. She knew they would be sure to
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: spoil her beauty. Jimmy Rabbit had no time to say
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: anything more to Henrietta Hen. Although he had not finished
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: his luncheon, he left the garden suddenly, and in great
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: taste for old dog Spot began barking just beyond the fence,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: and Jimmy Rabbit always wanted to get as far away
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: from that sound as he could. When Spot scurried into
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: the cabbage patch a little later, Henrietta called to him.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: What is it? He asked her impatiently. I'm in a
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: great hurry. I don't like to stop. This is a
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: very important matter, said Henrietta.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: Hag.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: Do you like cabbage? She demanded. Cabbage, he repeated after her,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: as a puzzled look came over his face. You needn't
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: act so surprised, Henrietta told him coldly. You didn't come
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: running into the garden for nothing, and I have reason
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: to believe that you intended to eat some of Farmer
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Green's cabbages. What's your reason? Old Spott inquired, you have
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: long ears, said Henrietta. Nonsense, cried Spot. What a person
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: eats doesn't make his ears long or short. Are you
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: sure of that, Henrietta hen wanted to know. I've never
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: eaten cabbage in all my life, he declared. Still, she
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: couldn't rid herself of her fears. Perhaps, she said, if
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: you had eaten it, your ears would have grown twice
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: as long as they are now. He shook his head.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think so, he muttered. There's only one way
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: to find out. Henrietta announced, Eat a lot of cabbage
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: all you can, and we'll soon see whether your ears
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: are growing longer. But Old dog Spot flatly refused to
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: do anything of the sort. What Henrietta cried, You wouldn't
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: eat cabbage to oblige a lady, Old Spot said he
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: was sorry, but he had no liking for cabbage. How
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: can you tell if you've never even tasted it, she asked.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: He made no answer to that question. Instead, he asked
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: her one of his own. Would you like long ears?
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: He inquired, certainly not, she cried, How can you tell
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: if you're not wearing any? He demanded, don't be stupid,
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: she snapped. None of my family wears ears that can
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: be seen. What a sight i'd be with long ears.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Ears are very ugly things, and I only hope that
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: I haven't eaten so much cabbage that mine will begin
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: to grow. Do you suppose they'll hang down like yours?
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Or stick up like Jimmy rabbits? He didn't say anything
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: about that, old dog. Spot led out a howl. Jimmy rabbit,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: he growled. Was he talking with you just before I arrived? Yes,
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: said Henrietta. It was he that asked me if I
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: had ever heard that eating cabbage made a person's ears grow,
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I might have known that it was that young rabbit
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: who puts such a silly notion in your head. Spot grumbled.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: If you hadn't stopped me, i'd have stopped him by
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: this time. But it's too late now. You don't suppose
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: he was joking, do you, Henrietta inquired. Of course he was,
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: said Spot, and none too pleasantly. Well, Henriette amused, as
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: she pecked at a cabbage leaf. I must say that
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: I think the jokes on you. End of chapter fourteen
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: years Shorter, long read by Sarah and Grasha Parshall Sarah
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Parshall dot blogspot dot com, New York.
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: Chapter fifteen, The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey.
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 6: visit librovox dot org. Chapter fifteen, Henrietta's Fright, recorded by Merrit.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: When the old horse Ebenezer stood in his stall in
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: the barn, he was always glad to talk with anybody
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: that came along. Henrietta Hen sometimes stroll into the horse
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: barn to see if she could find a little grain
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: that had spuilt on the floor. So it came about
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: that she and Ebenezer had many a chat together. Henrietta
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: had no great opinion of horses. She thought that they
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: had altogether more than their share of grain. But she
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: was willing to pass the time of day with Ebenezer,
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: because he let her walk right into his stall and
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: pick up tidbits that had dropped upon the floor beneath
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: his manger. It was on such an occasion, on a
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: side day, that he said to her, with a sigh,
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: haying's going to begin tomorrow. Henrietta hann remarked that she
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: wasn't at all interested in the news, and I don't
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: see why you should sigh. She added. Goodness knows you'll
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: eat your share of the hay and probably more before
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: the winter's over. It's the work that I'm thinking of,
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: Ebenezer explained, Bell hitch me to the hay rack, and
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: Johnny Green will drive me all day long in the
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: hot hay fields. I always hate to hear the clatter
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: of the mowing machine, he groaned. It means that the
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: hay rack will come out of the shed next. Henrietta
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: caught her breath the mowing machine. She gasped. Is Farmer
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: Green going to use the mowing machine now? Certainly, said Ebene's.
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: I hear he's going to harness the bays to do
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: it tomorrow morning, My my, Henrietta wailed. Isn't there any
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: way I can stop him from doing that? I don't
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: know of any, Ebenezer told her. I've often felt just
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: as you do about it. There's nobody that dreads hearing
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: the mowing machine more than I do. You can't feel
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: the way I do, Henrietta declared. On the contrary, the
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: old horse insisted, I don't see how it can matter
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: to you in the least. You don't have to pull
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: the mowing machine nor the hay rack. Besides, didn't you
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: just tell me that my news about haying didn't interest you?
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: But it does, Henrietta cried, I was mistaken. It means
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: everything to me. It's the worst news I've ever heard
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: in all my life. Old Ebenezer looked down at her
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: with my mild astonishment on his long, honest face. Why
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: is it bad news? He inquired, If you'll tell me,
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: perhaps I can help you. So, Henrietta hen explained her difficulty.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: Whatever it was, it amazed Ebenezer, and he had to
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: admit that he could think of no way out of
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: the trouble. It was very, very careless of you, he
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: told Henrietta. Then suddenly he had a happy thought. Cheer up,
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: he cried, if Farmer Green sits on them, maybe they'll hatch.
• 59:38
  Speaker 10: Hatch.
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: She groan, they'll break, And she ran out of the
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: stall and hurried into the yard. She was just in
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: time to hear Farmer Green calling to his son Johnny.
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: Look here, he said. I started to oil the moin
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: machine so I could use it tomorrow and just see
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: what I found. In the seat. Johnny Green came a running,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: and there in the seat of the mowing machine, nestling
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: in the hay, which had been put there for a
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: cushion the summer before. Three eggs greeted Johnny's eyes. They
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: must belonged to the speckled hen Johnny decided, I knew
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: she'd stolen her nest again. I couldn't find it anywhere.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: He picked up the eggs and put them in his hat.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: She's a sly one, he said. That remark made Henrietta
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: Hen somewhat angry. At the same time, she was glad
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: that farmer Green had discovered the eggs before it was
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: too late. She wouldn't have liked him to sit on them.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: It always upset her to see her eggs broken. End
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: of Chapter fifteen, Henrietta's Fright recorded by Mary.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: Chapter sixteen of The Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:12
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• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: Recording by GENA Way. The Tale of Henrietta Hen by
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Arthur Scott Bailey. Chapter sixteen. The rooster upset during the summer,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: Henrietta Hen roamed about the farmyard as she pleased. To
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: be sure, she always came a running at feeding time,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: but except when there was something there to eat, she
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: didn't go near the hen house. She stole her nest,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: to use Johnny Green's words, Now in one place and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: in another, and at night she roosted on any handy
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: place in the barn or the hay mow, under the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: carriage shed, or even over the pig pens. However, when
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: the knights began to grow chilly, Henriette was glad enough
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: to creep into the henhouse with her companions. She always
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: retired early, and being a good sleeper, she stepped usually
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: intil the rooster began to crawl towards dawn. Of course,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: now and then some fidgety hen fancied that she heard
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: a fox prowling about and waked everybody else with her squalls.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Such interruptions upset Henriette. After the flock had gone to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: sleep again, Henrietta Hen was more than likely to dream
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: that fatty coon was in the hen house, and she
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: would squawk right out and start another commotion. Luckily, such
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: disturbances didn't happen every night. Often nothing occurred to break
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  Speaker 4: the silence of the hen house, and Henriette would dream
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  Speaker 4: only of pleasant things, such as cracked corn, or crisp
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  Speaker 4: cabbage leaves or bone meal. After dreams of that sort,
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  Speaker 4: Henrietta couldn't always be sure when the rooster waked her
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  Speaker 4: with his crowing that she hadn't already breakfasted, But she
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  Speaker 4: would peck at her breakfast when feeding time came, and
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  Speaker 4: if it tasted good, she would know them that the
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  Speaker 4: other food had been nothing. Dream. One night, soon after
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  Speaker 4: she had gone back to rooster in the henhouse, it
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  Speaker 4: seemed to Henrietta that she had scarcely fallen asleep, and
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  Speaker 4: the rooster crowed. She awoke with a start. Goodness, she
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  Speaker 4: exclaimed in her breath. I must have stepped soundly, for
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: I haven't dreamed a single dream all night long. Then
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: she noticed that none of the other hands stood lazy bones.
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  Speaker 4: Henriette remarked to the rooster, you won't get em up
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  Speaker 4: in a hurry. They don't hear he at all. You
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: were surprised. She received no answer. He couldn't have heard me,
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  Speaker 4: she said to herself. So she repeated her speech in
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: a louder tone and still, the rooster made no reply.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: Henriette couldn't understand it. He was always so polite to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: the ladies. Could it be that he was snubbing her?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Henrietta grew a bit angry as that thought popped into
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: her head. What's the matter, she snapped, Have you lost
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  Speaker 4: their voice? I was loud enough to wake me up
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  Speaker 4: a few moments ago. We seemed no response soever. Henrietta
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  Speaker 4: completely lost her temper. I'll see what's wrong with you,
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  Speaker 4: she cackled, and throwing herself off her roost those dark
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  Speaker 4: as the pocket in the hen house, she flung herself
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  Speaker 4: upon the perch just opposite where she knew the rooster
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: had slept. It was no wonder that Henriette had blundered
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  Speaker 4: in the dark. It was no wonder that she missed
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  Speaker 4: her way and stumbled squarely into the rooster, knocking him
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  Speaker 4: headlong on the floor. He set up a terrible clamor,
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  Speaker 4: and he made Henrietta head angrier than ever, for he
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  Speaker 4: cried out in a loud voice something that would have
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  Speaker 4: displeased anybody. A skunk is after me, he bawled. End
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  Speaker 4: of chapter sixteen, The Rooster Upset recording by Gina Way.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter seventeen of the Tale of Henrietta Hen. This is
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  Speaker 7: The Tale of Henry the Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey
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  Speaker 7: recording by roshna Amer, Chapter seventeen, A sign of rain.
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  Speaker 7: There was a terrible hubbub in the henhouse. The rooster
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: sculled so loudly that he waked up every hen in
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: the place. And when they heard him crying that as
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  Speaker 7: skunk had knocked him off his roost, they were as
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  Speaker 7: frightened as he was, and set up a wild cackle.
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  Speaker 7: All but Henry the Hen. She knew there was no
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  Speaker 7: skunk there. Don't be a goose er, don't be a gander,
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  Speaker 7: she hissed to the rooster. I'm the one who bumped
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  Speaker 7: into you. The rooster quickly came to his sense. Don't
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: be alarm, ladies, he called to the flock. There is
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  Speaker 7: no danger. There's been a slight mistake. He pretended that
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  Speaker 7: he hadn't been scared, but he had been, and now
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  Speaker 7: he was somewhat uneasy about Henry the Hen, he feared
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 7: he was in for a scolding from her. If you
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  Speaker 7: had answered me when I spoke to you, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: have left my perch in the dark, she told the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: rooster severely. When I moved to your purse to see
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  Speaker 7: what was the matter, I blundered into you, and then
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  Speaker 7: you thought I was a skunk. You owe me an apology, sir.
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  Speaker 7: The rooster was glad it was no lighter in the henhouse,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 7: for he felt himself flushing hotly. You must pardon me,
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  Speaker 7: he said. I had no idea it was you, for
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: you waked me out of a sound sleep. Sound sleep. Indeed,
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  Speaker 7: Henrietta Hen exclaimed to the sniff, Why you had been
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  Speaker 7: crowing only for a moment before. In fact, it was
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  Speaker 7: your crowing that roused me, no doubt, said the rooster.
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  Speaker 7: But you see I fell asleep again immediately. Then you
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  Speaker 7: must be ill, Henrietta retorted, for I have never known
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  Speaker 7: you to go to sleep again once you began your
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: morning's crowing. But it's not morning, the rooster informed her.
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  Speaker 7: It's not even late at night, certainly not an hour
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  Speaker 7: since sunset. Henrietta Hen was astonished. I noticed that the
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  Speaker 7: night seemed short. She muttered. The rooster thought it a
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  Speaker 7: great joke. Ha ha, he laughed, and he said to
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  Speaker 7: the rest of the flock with a chuckle. Henrietta thought
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  Speaker 7: it was morning, no doubt she had gone out into
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  Speaker 7: the yard if the door hadn't been shut. And the
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  Speaker 7: other hens all tittered they always did if the rooster
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  Speaker 7: expected them to.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 7: If there was one thing that Henrietta Hen couldn't indure,
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  Speaker 7: it was to be laughed at. Don't be silly, she cried,
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  Speaker 7: Why shouldn't I think it was morning? When he crawled
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  Speaker 7: almost in my ear? Don't you know why I cried?
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  Speaker 7: The rooster asked her, without waiting for any reply, He said,
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  Speaker 7: I crowed to let farmer Green know it was going
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  Speaker 7: to rain tomorrow. Of course, Henrita Hen had to have
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  Speaker 7: the last word. The rostrumt of known she would. Then
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  Speaker 7: she observed, I suppose you squawked to let him know
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  Speaker 7: there was a skunk in the henhouse. End of Chapter seventeen.
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  Speaker 10: A sign of rain, Section eighteen of the Tale of
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailly. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 10: Something was troubling Henrietta Hen. She seemed to have some
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 10: secret sorrow. No longer did she move with her well
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  Speaker 10: known Queen Lee mannor among her neighbors in the farmyard. Instead,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 10: she spent a good deal of her time moping, and
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  Speaker 10: no one could guess the reason. She didn't even care
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  Speaker 10: to talk to anybody, not even to boast about her
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  Speaker 10: fine speckled coat. And that certainly was not in the
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  Speaker 10: least like Henrietta Hen. Always before, Henrietta had ceased every
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  Speaker 10: chance to parade before the public. Now she seemed to
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  Speaker 10: crave privacy. What was the matter? To tell the truth,
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta hen herself did not know the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 10: That is to say, she did not know why a
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  Speaker 10: certain thing was so. She only knew that a great
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  Speaker 10: misfortune had befallen her, and she dreaded to tell anybody
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: about it. To be sure, there was old Whitey, a
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  Speaker 10: hen who had lived on the farm longer than any other.
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  Speaker 10: Most members of the flock often asked her advice. Even
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 10: Henrietta herself had done that, But this difficulty was something
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  Speaker 10: she didn't want to mention. To a neighbor. If there
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  Speaker 10: were only somebody outside the flock to whom she could
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  Speaker 10: go for help, but she knew of no one. Then
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta happened to hear of Aunt Pollywood Chuck. The muly cow,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: who went to the pasture every day, mentioned Aunt Polly's
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  Speaker 10: name to Henrietta. According to the muly cow, Aunt Pollywoodchuck
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 10: was an herb doctor, and a good one too. No
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 10: matter what might be troubling a person, Aunt Polly was
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: sure to have something right in her basket to cure it.
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  Speaker 10: I'd like to see her, Henrietta, hen had said, But
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  Speaker 10: I can't go way up in the pasture under the hill.
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  Speaker 10: Could you go to the end of the lane. The
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  Speaker 10: muly cow inquired, Yes, then I'll ask Aunt Pollywood Chuck
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  Speaker 10: to meet you by the bars to morrow morning. The
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  Speaker 10: muly cow promised. That suited Henrietta. Hen I'll be there
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 10: if it doesn't rain, she agreed. Early the next day,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 10: she followed the cow's through the lane, and she hadn't
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 10: waited long at the bars when Aunt Pollywood Chuck came
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 10: home up to her. Being a very old lady, Aunt
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 10: Polly was somewhat lame, but she was spry for all that,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 10: and her eyes were as bright as buttons. Henrietta Hen
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 10: saw at once that Aunt Polly was hopelessly old fashioned.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 10: She carried a basket on her arm and a stick
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 10: in her hand. Well, well, dearie, here you are, cried
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 10: Aunt Polly, with Jack the mule cow tells me you're
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 10: feeling poorly. Do tell me about yourself, no doubt of
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 10: something in my basket that will do you a world
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  Speaker 10: of good and of section eighteen, Section nineteen of the
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  Speaker 10: Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailly. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 10: Polly Helps Somehow, Henrietta Hen couldn't help liking Aunt Pollywood Chuck.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 10: In spite of her old fashioned appearance, she certainly had
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  Speaker 10: away with her a way that made a person want
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  Speaker 10: to tell her his troubles. I don't know whether you
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  Speaker 10: can help me or not, said Henrietta Hen. Have you
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  Speaker 10: any feathers in your basket? No, no, no feathers. Aunt
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  Speaker 10: Polly replied, I use herbs in my business of doctrine.
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  Speaker 10: But I've heard that a burnt feather held under a
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  Speaker 10: body's nose. We'll do wonders sometimes. I must always carry
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  Speaker 10: a feather in my basket hereafter one feather wouldn't do
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  Speaker 10: me any good, said Henrietta Hen with a doleful sigh.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 10: I need a great many more than one, you do.
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  Speaker 10: Aunt Polly cried, yes, Henrietta answered, half my feathers have
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  Speaker 10: dropped off me, and that's why I have come to
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  Speaker 10: ask your advice. I'm fast losing my fatal beauty. Henrietta
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  Speaker 10: Hen's voice trembled as she told Aunt Pollywood chuck the
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  Speaker 10: dreadful news. I don't believe you'll be able to help me,
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  Speaker 10: she quavered. I'll soon look like perfect fright. Besides, winter's coming,
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  Speaker 10: and how I'll ever keep warm with no feathers is
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  Speaker 10: more than I know. Henrietta Hen couldn't understand how Aunt
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  Speaker 10: Polly managed to stay so calm. Henrietta had expected her
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  Speaker 10: to throw up her hands and say something like sakes
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 10: alive or mercy on us, but the old lady did
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  Speaker 10: nothing of the sort. She set her basket down on
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  Speaker 10: the ground, and pushing her spectacles forward to the end
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  Speaker 10: of her nose, she leaned over and looked closely at Henrietta.
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  Speaker 10: Hen Aunt Polly's gaze traveled over Henrietta from head to
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  Speaker 10: foot and then back again, and she took hold of
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  Speaker 10: one of Henrietta's feathers and gave it a gentle twitch.
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  Speaker 10: Look out, Henrietta cried, you'll pull it out if you're
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  Speaker 10: not careful, and I can't afford to lose any more
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  Speaker 10: feathers than I have too. Don't worry, Aunt Pollywood, Chuck
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  Speaker 10: advised her. Cheer up. There's nothing the matter with you.
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  Speaker 10: You are malting. You are going to get a new
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  Speaker 10: outfit of feathers for winter. Your old ones have to
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 10: fall out in order to make room for the new,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 10: and no doubt the fresh ones will be much handsomer
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  Speaker 10: than the old. Henrietta couldn't believe that Aunt Polly knew
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 10: what she was talking about. I can't be molting as
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  Speaker 10: early in the fall as this, she protested. I've never
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  Speaker 10: got my winter feathers so soon. I fear you're mistaken,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 10: she told Aunt Polly. Oh no, I'm not mistaken. Aunt Pollywood,
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  Speaker 10: Chuck insisted, I know it's for molting, but haven't you
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 10: noticed that the wheat grew big this year? And that
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 10: the bark on young trees is thick. And haven't you
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 10: observed that frisky squirrel is laying up a great store
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  Speaker 10: of nuts in this hollow tree, and that the hornets
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  Speaker 10: built their paper houses far from the ground this summer.
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta Hen's mouth fell open as she stared at Aunt
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  Speaker 10: Polly would chug, and when the old lady paused, Henrietta
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  Speaker 10: looked quite bewildered. I don't know what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 10: she murmured. I don't see what all this has to
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  Speaker 10: do with molting. Some of those signs, Aunt Polly explained,
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  Speaker 10: mean an early winter, and some of em mean a
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  Speaker 10: cold one. I've never known em to fail. And you're
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  Speaker 10: molting early, so you'll have a good warm coat of feathers.
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  Speaker 10: But a time winter comes well, Henrietta hand began to
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 10: feel better at once. She actually smiled, something she had
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  Speaker 10: not done for days. Thank you, Thank you, she said,
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  Speaker 10: you're a fine doctor, Rount Polly. I don't wonder that
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 10: folks ask your advice, especially when there's nothing the matter
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  Speaker 10: with them. And then Henrietta Hen hurried off down the lane.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 10: Being timid about hawks, she never felt quite comfortable far
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  Speaker 10: from the farmyard end of section nineteen Section twenty of
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  Speaker 10: A great flurry. There was a great flurry among farmer
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 10: Green's hens. They all insisted on talking at the same
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 10: time because they had heard an astonishing bit of news.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 10: It was about Henrietta hen. Wherever she went, her neighbors
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 10: craned their necks at her, just as if they hadn't
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 10: seen her every day for as long as they could remember.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 10: Henrietta Hen enjoyed and noticed that everybody took of her.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 10: She went to some trouble to move about a good deal,
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  Speaker 10: so that all might have a chance to stare at her.
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  Speaker 10: For if there was one thing she liked, it was attention.
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  Speaker 10: There was a reason why Henrietta had suddenly become the
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  Speaker 10: most talked off member of the flock. She was going
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  Speaker 10: to the country fair. Furthermore, she expected to take all
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  Speaker 10: her children with her. There wasn't the least doubt that
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  Speaker 10: it was all true. The whole flock had heard Johnnie
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  Speaker 10: Green and his father talking about it. Of course, everybody
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  Speaker 10: asked Henrietta hen a great number of questions when she
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  Speaker 10: was going to live. How long did she expect to
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  Speaker 10: stay at the fair? What did she intend to do there?
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  Speaker 10: Would she wear her best clothes if it rained? There
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  Speaker 10: was no end to such inquiries. Unfortunately, Henrietta Hand could
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  Speaker 10: answer very few of them. Never having visited a fair,
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  Speaker 10: she had no idea what affair was like. She only
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  Speaker 10: guessed that when the time came, she and her family
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  Speaker 10: would be put into a pen, loaded upon a wagon,
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  Speaker 10: and jolted over the road that led to the fair,
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  Speaker 10: wherever it might be. But Henrietta didn't intend to let
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  Speaker 10: her neighbors find out how little she knew about fairs.
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  Speaker 10: She said that before starting she expected to wait for
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  Speaker 10: the wagon, that she hoped to stay at the fair
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  Speaker 10: as long as it lasted because she didn't want to
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  Speaker 10: miss anything, and that she intended to come home when
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  Speaker 10: the wagon brought her. Furthermore, she planned to wear her
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  Speaker 10: best apron anyhow, because there was sure to be fair
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  Speaker 10: weather at a fair. How could it be otherwise? Old
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  Speaker 10: Ebenez of the horse told her to be sure to
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  Speaker 10: see the races. They're the best part of a fair,
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  Speaker 10: he said, in my younger days, I used to take
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  Speaker 10: part in them, and then he added, there's nothing else
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  Speaker 10: at a fair that's worth looking at. What about the
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  Speaker 10: poultry shaw? Henrietta hen asked him. She didn't know what
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  Speaker 10: poultry shaws were, but she had heard Farmer Green mention them.
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  Speaker 10: I never paid any attention to the poultry exhibit the horse,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 10: Ebenezer replied, I never took part in that. I suppose
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 10: it might interest you. However, Henrietta hand smiled a knowing
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  Speaker 10: sort of smile, and she remarked to poly Plymouth Rock,
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  Speaker 10: who stood near her, that she didn't believe the old
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  Speaker 10: horse knew a race from a poultry's shaw. If he
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  Speaker 10: ever went to a fair, I dare say he was
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 10: hitched outside the fence, she sniffed. Polly Plymouth Rock cackled
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  Speaker 10: with amusement, and she said something that displeased Henrietta hen exceedingly.
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  Speaker 10: Are you going to take the duckling that you hatched out?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 10: She asked, certainly not, Henrietta snapped, please, miss Plymouth Rock,
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  Speaker 10: never mention him again. I'm going to the fair among strangers,
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  Speaker 10: and I shouldn't care to have them know about that
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  Speaker 10: accident that happened to me, not for anything. End of
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  Speaker 10: section twenty Section twenty one off The Tale of Henry
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  Speaker 10: at the Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 10: the Fair, It seemed to Henry at the hand that
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 10: the time for the fair would never come. She had
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 10: begun to feel somewhat uneasy because she had talked so
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  Speaker 10: much about visiting the fair with her children, that it
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 10: would be very awkward if she didn't go. So she
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 10: was delighted one day by the noise of hammering and
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 10: sewing that came from the work bench at the end
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 10: of the wagon shed a merry noise. It was to
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 10: Henrietta's ears, for she guessed at once what was happening.
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  Speaker 10: Farmer Green and his son were building a pen in
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  Speaker 10: which she and her family were to ride to the fair.
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  Speaker 10: The news spread like fire in sun dried grass. Henrietta
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  Speaker 10: hen took pains that it should. She told everybody she
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 10: saw that she expected to leave at any moment, and
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  Speaker 10: she began to say good bye to all her friends
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 10: since Henrietta didn't start for the fair that day. Before nightfall,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: she had bade every one farewell at least a dozen times,
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  Speaker 10: And when the following dawn, Henrietta started the day by
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 10: not saying good morning, but by bidding her neighbors good
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  Speaker 10: bye once more. They began to think her a bit tiresome.
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  Speaker 10: What haven't you gone yet, they asked her. No, but
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  Speaker 10: I expect at any moment. Henrietta told them she was
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  Speaker 10: so excited that she couldn't eat her breakfast. But her
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  Speaker 10: checks had no such trouble. And perhaps it was just
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  Speaker 10: as well that Henrietta hen had her hands full looking
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  Speaker 10: after them and trying to keep them all under her
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  Speaker 10: eye and speak and spend for the journey. Otherwise she
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  Speaker 10: would have been in more of a flatter than she was.
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  Speaker 10: While Henrietta had an eye on her children, she tried
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  Speaker 10: to keep the other on the barn. And after what
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  Speaker 10: seemed to her hours of watching and waiting, she saw
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  Speaker 10: Johnnie Green lead the old horse Ebenezer, out of the
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  Speaker 10: door with his harness on. Henrietta promptly forgot her stately manners.
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  Speaker 10: She ran, squalling across the farmyard and called to Ebenezer
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  Speaker 10: where are you going? I understand that I'm going to
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  Speaker 10: the fair he told her, as Johnnie Green backed him
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  Speaker 10: between the hills of a wagon. Once, I would have
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  Speaker 10: been hitched to a light buggy with the sulky tide
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  Speaker 10: behind it. But now I've got to take you and
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  Speaker 10: your family this redly old contraption. Henrietta hen didn't wait
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  Speaker 10: to hear any more. She turned and hurried back together
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  Speaker 10: her youngsters and beat everybody another farewell, imide a great
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  Speaker 10: clucking and squawking. Johnnie Green and his father put Henrietta
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  Speaker 10: and her cheeks into the pen and placed it in
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  Speaker 10: the back of the wagon. We're all ready, Henrietta cried
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  Speaker 10: to Ebenezza. The old horse didn't even turn his head,
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  Speaker 10: for he could see backwards as well as forwards because
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  Speaker 10: he wore no blinders. He made no direct reply to Henrietta,
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  Speaker 10: though he gave a sort of grunt, as if the
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  Speaker 10: whole affair did not please him. He knew that it
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  Speaker 10: was a long distance to the fair grounds, and the
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  Speaker 10: road was hilly. She thinks it alark, he said to
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  Speaker 10: the dog Spot, who hung about as if he were
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  Speaker 10: waiting for something. She's lucky, for she won't have to
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  Speaker 10: go on her own legs for miles and miles. That's
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  Speaker 10: just what I intend to do. Spot informed him. They
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  Speaker 10: don't mean to take me, but I'm going to follow
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  Speaker 10: you right under the wagon where Johnnie Green and his
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  Speaker 10: father can't see me. So they started off, and they
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: had scarcely passed through the gate when Henrietta began to
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: clamor in her shrilliest tones, but nobody paid any heed
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  Speaker 10: to her. The wagon clattered off down the road, and
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  Speaker 10: the old dog Spot smiled to himself as she trotted
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 10: along beneath it. Henrietta just remembered that she forgot to
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  Speaker 10: put on her best apron. He chuckled. End of section twenty.
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  Speaker 11: One, chapter twenty two of the Tale of Henrietta Hen.
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  Speaker 11: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 11: the public domain. For more information or to volin here,
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  Speaker 11: please visit LibriVox dot org. The Tale of Henrietta Hen
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  Speaker 11: by Arthur Scott Bailey, Chapter twenty two, almost homesick. Never
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  Speaker 11: in all her life had Henrietta hen seen so many
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  Speaker 11: hens and roosters and chicks as she found on every
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  Speaker 11: side of her at the fair. Farmer Green and his
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  Speaker 11: son Johnny had set her pen in the poultry hall,
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  Speaker 11: and to Henrietta's surprise, none of her new neighbors paid
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 11: much attention to her and her chicks at first. She
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 11: soon decided that there was a reason for this neglect.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 11: She made up her mind that she would have to
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 11: make herself heard amid all that uproar, for the others
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  Speaker 11: would never know she had arrived. Luckily, Henrietta had a
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 11: strong voice. She used it to the utmost, and it
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 11: wasn't long before a huge hen and a pen next
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  Speaker 11: hers gave her a bold look and asked, what are
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 11: you here for. I've come to get the first prize,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 11: Henrietta answered calmly. She had listened carefully to what Farmer
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 11: Green and Johnny had said to each other during the
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 11: journey from the farm, and already she knew something about Fani.
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  Speaker 11: Her new neighbor laughed right in Henriette's face. Huh, I
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 11: don't see how you can win the first prize, she said,
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  Speaker 11: with a sniff. I'm going to get the first prize myself.
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  Speaker 11: There never was another such fine family as mine. She
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  Speaker 11: glanced proudly at her chicks as she spoke, the best
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  Speaker 11: you can hope for, she told Henriette is the second prize,
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  Speaker 11: and you'll be lucky if you get the third. For Once,
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  Speaker 11: Henrietta hen was at a loss for a retort. I
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 11: don't believe you've ever been at a fair before, her
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 11: new neighbor observed. Henrietta admitted faintly that she hadn't. Last year.
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  Speaker 11: I won second prize, said the other I'd have had
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 11: the first prize if the judges had known their business.
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  Speaker 11: Henrietta Hen began to feel very shaky in her legs.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 11: She had expected a different sort of greeting when she
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 11: should arrive at the fair. She had thought everybody would exclaim,
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  Speaker 11: here comes Henrietta Hen, what a fine family of chicks
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  Speaker 11: she has, and aren't missus henspeckles beautiful? And there she was,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 11: with nobody paying any heed to her, except the lofty
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  Speaker 11: dame in the next pen, who had said nothing very agreeable.
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  Speaker 11: Oh dear, Henrietta sighed, I wish i'd never left home.
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  Speaker 11: What's that? Her new neighbor inquired in a sharp tone.
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  Speaker 11: You aren't homesick, are you? No, said Henrietta. But I
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 11: had expected to win the first prize, and I don't
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 11: know what my friends will say when I come back
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  Speaker 11: home without it. Well, everybody can't win it, said her
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  Speaker 11: new acquaintance. Not the same year, anyhow, and then she
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  Speaker 11: looked Henrietta up and down for a few moments while
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 11: Henrietta squirmed uneasily. Where do you come from? She asked
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  Speaker 11: at last, I live on Farmer Green's place in Pleasant Valley,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 11: Henrietta informed her. The lady in the next pen shook
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 11: her head. I've never heard of Pleasant Valley, she remarked,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 11: nor of Farmer Green. He must be small potatoes. Well,
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  Speaker 11: Henrietta was astonished. She began to feel as if she
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 11: were nobody at all. She had supposed that everybody knew
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  Speaker 11: of Pleasant Valley and of Farmer Green too. As for
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  Speaker 11: the remark small potatoes, she didn't understand it at all,
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  Speaker 11: so she inquired what it meant. It means, said her neighbor,
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  Speaker 11: that Farmer Green can't be of much account. That speech
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  Speaker 11: made Henrietta hen almost lose her temper. Mister Green, she cried,
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  Speaker 11: is a fine man, and I'll have you know that
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  Speaker 11: I wouldn't live anywhere but on his farm. End of
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  Speaker 11: Chapter twenty two, Almost Homesick.
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  Speaker 10: Section twenty three of the Tale of Henrietta Hen by
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  Speaker 10: Arthur Scott Bailey. This LibriVox recording isn't a public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section twenty three. Getting acquainted not liking her neighbor on
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 10: her right at Daffaire, Henrietta hen saddled up to the
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  Speaker 10: wire netting on the opposite side of her pen. Peering
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  Speaker 10: through it, she examined a person whom she saw just
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 10: beyond in a pen of her own. A very slik
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  Speaker 10: hen was this who gave Henrietta a slight nod. We
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  Speaker 10: may as well speak, she said, since we're to live
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  Speaker 10: next to each other.
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  Speaker 7: For a week.
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  Speaker 10: A week, Henrietta groaned, Shall I have to stay cooked
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  Speaker 10: up here as long as that? Yes, said neighbor number two.
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  Speaker 10: And I don't blame you for feeling as you seem too.
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  Speaker 10: A week is a long time for everybody here except me.
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta hen didn't understand her. I am going to win
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  Speaker 10: the first prize with my chicks, Neighbor number two announced,
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  Speaker 10: Of course, that's worth waiting here a week. I don't
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  Speaker 10: see how you can win the first prize, Henrietta exclaimed,
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  Speaker 10: Why not, demanded the other, and she pressed the against
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 10: the wire netting of her pen and stuck her head
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  Speaker 10: through it as far as she could, as if she
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 10: would have pecked Henrietta had she been able to, Because,
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  Speaker 10: Henriette explained, because the lady on the other side of
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  Speaker 10: me is going to win it. Who said so she did?
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta answered, ha, ha, cackled neighbor number two. That's a
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  Speaker 10: good joke. She hasn't any more chance of winning than
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 10: than you have now, Henrietta hen couldn't help being puzzled.
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  Speaker 10: But whoever might win the first prize? She was sure
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 10: it couldn't be. She hadn't her neighbors on either side
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  Speaker 10: of her the same has told her that she couldn't win.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 10: Henrietta would have felt quite glum, except that she couldn't
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 10: very well mope in the midst of a terrific racket
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 10: all about her. Soon her neighbors, both number one and
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 10: number two were having loud disputes with the hands in
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: the pens on the further side of them. It seemed
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 10: as if every hand at the fair had left her
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 10: manners at home. If she ever had any goodness, Henrietta
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 10: hen murmured to herself, if their surprise. It must be
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 10: for the one that can make the most noise. In
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 10: a little while, throngs of men, women and children crowded
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 10: into the poultry hall. They paused before the pins and
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 10: looked at the occupants, making remarks that were sometimes full
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: of praise and sometimes slighting. Henrietta hend felt terribly uneasy
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 10: when people began to stop and stare at her. She
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 10: dreaded to hear what they would say. After the way
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 10: her next door neighbor had talked to her, she didn't
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 10: believe anybody would have a word of praise for her.
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  Speaker 10: She soon heard all sorts of remarks about herself. Some
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 10: said she was too little, and some said she was
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 10: too big. Others exclaimed that her legs were too short,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 10: while still others declared that they were too long. As
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  Speaker 10: these and many other similar comments fell upon Henrietta's ears,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 10: she promptly decided that there wasn't anything about her that
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 10: was as it should be. Having always called herself before
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 10: she left home a speckled beauty, she began to feel
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 10: very low in her mind, and there was only one
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  Speaker 10: thing that kept her from being downright said. All the
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 10: sidseeers agreed that she had some pretty chicks. Henrietta couldn't
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  Speaker 10: help wishing that they had a different mother, one that
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  Speaker 10: was worthy of them. End of section twenty three. Section
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  Speaker 10: twenty four off The Tale of Henriette Hen by Arthur
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  Speaker 10: Scott Bailey. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section twenty four Winning first prize. Henrietta Hen was waiting
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  Speaker 10: as patiently as she could for the fair to come
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  Speaker 10: to an end. She tried to close her ears to
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 10: the boast of her neighbors on either side of her
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  Speaker 10: that they were going to win the first prize. She
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 10: had heard too many unpleasant remarks about herself to have
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 10: even the slightest hope of winning any prize at all,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 10: let alone the first. Anyhow, we'll be going home to night,
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  Speaker 10: Henrietta said to herself, and I'll never, never, never come
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  Speaker 10: to another fair, and I'll go and hide way up
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  Speaker 10: high in the hay mow where they can't find me
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: before I'll spend another week in a place like this.
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  Speaker 10: While she was muttering under her breath like that, some
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 10: men came up to her pen and Henrietta hen promptly
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 10: squatted down in the furthest corner of it, hoping that
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: they wouldn't say anything disagreeable about her. She felt that
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  Speaker 10: she had already heard about all she could spend. She
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: didn't even look at her collars, and soon they moved away.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 10: Then Henrietta glanced up. She noted something blue dangling from
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 10: the front of her pin, and there was a greater
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 10: commotion than ever on all sides of her. Where is it,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 10: she cried? What has happened? Neighbor number one on her
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 10: right shot a spiteful look at her. Those stupid judges,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 10: she spluttered, They've made a terrible blunder. They've gone and
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 10: given you and your chicks the first price. And of
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 10: course it was meant for me and mine. It wasn't,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 10: screamed Neighbor number two on Henrietta's left, That price was
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 10: intended for me and my children. Oh one, second and third,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 10: cried a noisy hen from across the way. They're both
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 10: at the other end of the hall. Somebody shrieked. It's
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 10: an outrage. It isn't fair. We've been cheated, Henrietta. Hen's
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 10: nearest neighbors clamored, but nobody paid any attention to them.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 10: As for Henrietta, she didn't quite know how to act.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 10: She had intended when she left home to do a
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: good deal of strutting back and forth in her pen
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 10: with now and then a pause to prin herself, to
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 10: make sure that she looked her best, But somehow she
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 10: no longer cared to put on grand airs as of old.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: She remembered that some of the other hands at the
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 10: fair had been haughty and proud, and had smoothed their feathers,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 10: declaring boldly that they expected to in the first prize.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 10: Henrietta had heard it said that fine feathers don't make
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 10: fine birds, and she knew at last what that meant.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 10: It meant that gay clothes and lofty waists and boastful
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 10: talk were of no account at all. So Henrietta tried
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 10: to behave as if nothing unusual had happened. She told
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 10: her chicks that they were going home that evening, and
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 10: that she would be glad to be back on the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 10: farm again among plain home folks. At last, Johnnie Green
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 10: and his father came to load Henrietta and her family
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 10: into the wagon. Well, said the old horse Ebenezer, to
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 10: Henrietta did you enjoy the races. I didn't have a
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 10: chance to see them, she replied. That's a pity, he
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 10: told her. And then he asked her, what's that blue
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 10: tag hanging from your pen? That said, Henrietta. That means
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 10: that my chicks won the first prize. She helped me
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 10: win it herself, cried old dog Spot, who was yelping
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 10: about the wagon. Our little speckled hen was the best
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 10: hen at the fair. Nonsense, Henriette exclaimed, but all the
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 10: same she couldn't help being pleased. The end end of
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  Speaker 10: section twenty four and of the Tale of Henrietta Hen
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  Speaker 10: by Arthur Scott Bailey, recorded by Anna Derbysher, Oakland, New Zealand,